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The backlog of immigration cases has reached half a million and would take nearly four decades to clear at the present rate of progress, MPs have said.

Meanwhile, the number of foreign national offenders walking the streets has risen to more than 4,000 after the now-defunct UK Border Agency struggled to deport them from Britain.

MPs on the the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee said that Theresa May’s decision to scrap the agency and replace it with two units within the Home Office was in danger of becoming little more than an “exercise in rebranding”. Their report said that spending